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...Molly Ivins, Laura Ingraham and the rest of the authors and TV and radio hosts divided by beliefs but united by a common employer: the burgeoning American anger industry. It's a multimedia platform--TV and radio shows stoking book sales and vice versa--that grew strong through the '90s with the rise of Rush Limbaugh and the conservative-publishing boom. But the monologue has become--O.K., not a dialogue, but at least two angry monologues, as liberals have discovered the cathartic power of mass-market name calling. (Moore's Dude, Where's My Country...
...obvious goals for many companies; at Total, they seem imperative. The company has been battered at home and abroad over the past four years by a series of scandals: a high-profile corruption trial that last month sent former top managers to jail, allegations that in the mid-'90s, the company used forced labor to build a gas pipeline in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the regime) - which Total vigorously denies - and the 1999 wreck of the tanker Erika, which created a devastating oil spill that polluted some of France's best-loved beaches. "They had a lot of dodgy relationships...
Relocators warn that acclimating to smaller-town life can take time, particularly for former city slickers addicted to a fast pace. Carol and Kevin Conway fled their lives as Silicon Valley technology executives in the mid-'90s and now run business-service companies in Fort Myers. At first, says Carol, 47, "I was staggered by the lack of competitive drive, the lack of the push-push-push mentality." It took a few years for her to learn that "people who move to secondary markets like this have got to chill." She's even stopped wearing panty hose to work...
...philosophy, that there is no provable certainty. Once you accept that premise, you view decisions as being about probabilities and trade-offs. That basic approach has framed everything I've done. And, I might add, an awful lot of investors would have stayed out of trouble in the late '90s if they had better understood the risks and the probabilistic aspects of what they were engaged...
...name: Time. Turned out they were the French version of the American brand, More. (More, in French, sounds like the word for death. "Donnez-moi un packet de Mort, s'il-vous plait." In Italy, they're pronounced Mor-ay: nearly the Italian word for love.) Since the mid-90s I've bought Capri Menthol 120s, a cigarette so svelte and mild that, I joke, smoking them makes you live longer...